When I tried to do something else, everyone behaved as if I was Gypsy Rose Lee trying to paint a Matisse.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems.

Be careful how you interpret the world: It is like that.

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

Grief is an element. It has its own cycle like the carbon cycle, the nitrogen. It never diminishes not ever. It passes in and out of everything.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.

To whoever it is that is going through a heart break or a disappointing experience, stay strong and always remember that time accompanied with repeated positive interpretations are the best healers.

I've never called President Obama a racist. I love President Obama. I pray for him all the time. God loves President Obama. God loves you. And God loves me.

Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Physicists are atoms' way of thinking about atoms.

Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down.

I want to be here, for my family. I want to be here for my baby. I want to see the birth of my baby.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

Repose in that peaceful, cool, calm, serene depth of your Being. You know, this is something immensely valuable and precious

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.